EdgeBoston.com – by Heather Cassell – Bay Area Reporter
A recent examination into methods used by researcher and psychologist J. Michael Bailey, Ph.D., is resurrecting the controversy around his 2003 book The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism and transgender women’s anger about who gets to speak for them.
A forthcoming article, “The Controversy Surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in the Internet Age,” by Alice D. Dreger, Ph.D., an ethics scholar and patients’ rights advocate, to be published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, explores in-depth the reported Internet war waged against Bailey by transgender activists Lynn Conway, Andrea James, and Deirdre McCloskey after his book was published. The attacks included the alleged posting of pictures of Bailey’s children and his former girlfriend online with derogatory comments, allegations of Bailey’s sexual misconduct with one of his research participants, and his failure to disclose to research subjects his intentions to use them in a book.